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Forty is the New Twenty... or is it better?
“The last
time I felt totally in control of my life, and also the first time I felt like
I was a real adult, was at twenty-seven.” Maggie muses. “I had a husband, a
career, a NYC life. Recent grads were young and silly. Anyone over thirty was
stuck. Forty was ancient. Little did I realize how fleeting the feeling would
be. How fleeting that life would be.”
“Would you
go back?” Selah asks.
“Me?”
Maggie confirms. Taking a minute to think about it, she shakes her head. “No, I
don’t think I would. Would any of you?”
~ Geoducks Are for
Lovers
The media
loves to tell us that forty is the new twenty as if everyone on the far side of
their twenties is desperate to do the impossible and return to being a
twenty-something.
Not me. Maybe
in theory, but the reality of being a twenty-something wasn't all that fun.
My novel, Geoducks
Are for Lovers, focuses on a group of forty-something friends who get together
for a summer weekend at the beach. As with any group of old friends, they spend
some of the weekend reminiscing about their younger selves as well as catching
up on their lives today. There's a lot of talk about the fun of twenty and the
realities of being forty. When you're twenty, forty sounds like old age. When
you are forty, twenty seems like another lifetime. Or yesterday. Sometimes
both.
In a
positive light, if forty is the new twenty, that just means there are lots of
adventures still to experience. You
don't have to go quietly into the night of “middle age” and mom jeans.
Forty is
freedom
In your twenties, there's a freedom with being out on your
own, being in charge of your life, and your direction. But there is also the
feeling that every decision will be set in stone. At forty you know yourself better
and learn that life is fluid and ever-changing. You know what you won't put up
with in jobs and relationships, what matters more than getting into the new,
cool club or having the latest “it” bag/shoe/makeup/jeans, and what you makes
you happy. You can still eat cookie dough for dinner or an entire box of pizza
rolls dipped in blue cheese dressing (guilty), but you know the difference
between indulging and doing the better thing for yourself.
Forty is
forgiveness
Our inner voices of “you can't do that” get quieter in our
forties. Or maybe we just don't listen to them as much as we do in our
twenties. My friends and I are more comfortable owning our
lives/mistakes/triumphs/waistlines in our forties than in our twenties. The
twists and turns, opportunities taken and missed, relationships made and broken
in the journey from twenty to forty have made us who we are. And we're pretty
amazing, if we say so ourselves.
Forty is
fun
Or it can be. Make yourself a priority like you did in your
twenties. Spend time with friends who make you laugh until you pee. Find
something to be passionate about like you were in your twenties or teen years.
Be a fangirl of something. Be ridiculous. Don't care with others think and have
fun!
Meet Daisy
Before writing full time, Daisy Prescott worked in the world
of art, auctions, antiques, and home decor. She earned her degree in Art
History and endured a brief stint as a film theory graduate student. Baker, art
educator, antiques dealer, blue ribbon pie maker, blogger, content wrangler,
freelance writer, fangirl, gardener, wife, and pet mom are a few of the other
titles she’s acquired over the years.
Born and raised in San Diego, Daisy and her husband (aka SO)
currently live in a real life Stars Hollow in the Boston suburbs with their
dog, Hubbell, and an imaginary house goat. Geoducks Are for Lovers is her debut
novel. She is busy researching her second novel.
daisyprescott.com
@daisy_prescott (Twitter)
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Food writer Maggie Marrion is just getting back on her feet
after a horrible year, or two, or three. With their twentieth reunion
approaching, she invites four of her closest friends from college for a weekend
at her beach cabin. What she doesn’t expect is her best friends, artist Quinn
Dayton and part-time erotica novelist, Selah Elmore, to play matchmaker. The
two plot a surprise that will make the weekend, and her life, a lot more
interesting.
Gil Morrow, former grunge musician turned history professor,
joins them as Selah’s date for the weekend. After coming face to face with the
one who got away, he decides he's waited long enough to get the girl. With the
support of old friends, a few wishing rocks, the world’s largest burrowing
clam, and a hot lumberjack thrown into the mix, Gil reminds Maggie that
forty-something isn’t too old for second chances.
Can we learn to love the life we have and let go of who we
expected to be? What happens when the generation from The Breakfast Club and
Reality Bites meets The Big Chill? Come spend a weekend with these Generation
X-ers as they share laughter, tears, life’s ups and downs, old stories, and new
beginnings.
Everything happens for a reason…
After
Maggie loses her mother to a long illness, she retreats to her mother’s Pacific
Northwest island home. She becomes
nestled in the island lifestyle. Being
content in living as a local girl, she is free to do her work on-line as a food
blogger, she rarely has a need to leave the island.
With an
upcoming college reunion, she invites her college gang over for a long summer
weekend. The gang is fun loving and
complete with the power couple, Ben and Joe, Quinn the flamboyant gay artist
and his new husband and Selah the single girl and bestselling
erotica author. When Selah asks to bring
a friend, Maggie expects it to be one of her boy toys. She does not expect it to be Gil, her first
love. Will Maggie be able to leave her
safe and secure world and take a second chance at love nearly two decades later?
This is wonderful story about friendships and first loves
and taking chances. I enjoyed this story
and was sad when it was over, feeling like I had left my friends back at the
beach.
Looking around at everyone, she realizes, they’ve known each
other more than half their lives. Decades. Their friendships now measured in
blocks of years instead of weeks, months of even days. The fact they are drinking cans of ‘Oly’
might be adding to the nostalgia.
Maggie and Gil are the heart of the story. The undying love and friendship they have is
a wonderful tale that is woven through the nostalgia and present day. Sparks fly and rekindle after all the years.
“Oh, Maggie, what do you do to me? I feel like I’m twenty and you have really snuck me into your room.” She giggles. It’s kind of funny that we’re sneaking around twenty-two years later.”
But, Maggie struggles with letting go of her comfortable
island lifestyle. She is bound to make
the same mistakes again.
A great
love story. It has beautiful settings, witty humor and a bit of sexual tension.
A great debut!
11 comments:
Spend time with old college friends all the time
I didn't go to college when I was young but did in my forties. I do get together with those girls from time to time and with some old friends from high school. I will be entering under the name of Virginia.
I've stayed close to one of my college friends and we've stayed in contact with each other.
lenikaye@yahoo.com
Some of the friends I met in college are still my closest friends.
No I havent. I never went to college. Thanks for the giveaway.
I went to college as an adult and didn't bond with my classmates in that manner, but one of the best things I ever did was reconnect with high school friends a couple of years ago.
TCuevas@iccable.com
sometimes
you are invited to follow my blog
i didn't attend college but I still have High School friends I'm close to.
I had one friend I kept in touch with, but it has been a couple of years. We did go to our 25th college reunion, though!
Not sure if my comment went through before - I had a college friend that I saw up until a couple of years ago. Long story. We did actually go to our 25th reunion!
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